Gleason, Abbott

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Russia (Federation)--Civilization
Soviet Union--Civilization
(lcsh) Cold War--Research
Russia (Federation)--History

found: Nineteen eighty-four, c2005:CIP t.p. (Abbott Gleason) data sheet (b. 1938)

found: Russian writers [SR] p1982:narration (Tom Gleason; prof., Russian history, Brown Univ.)

found: Watson Institute website, Mar. 18, 2011(Abbott Gleason ; Abbott (Tom) Gleason is a long-time member of the Watson Institute's administration and faculty, as a Brown professor for over 30 years ; areas of interest: national identity in Russia/Soviet Union and United States from 1830-1930, and the history of the Cold War)

found: Washington post WWW site, viewed Jan. 4, 2016(in obituary dated Dec. 29, 2015: Abbott Gleason, a scholar of Russian history and culture whose works helped illuminate the Soviet Union during and beyond the Cold War era, died Dec. 25 in East Providence, R.I.; he was 77; taught at Brown University from 1968 until he retired in 2005; in Washington, he was director of the Kennan Institute for Russian studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in the early 1980s; at Brown, he chaired the history department and lectured on "everything from the emergence of the Slavs as a definable Eurasian culture all the way through to the end of the Soviet Union and into the Putin era," he wrote in a memoir; born in Cambridge, Mass., on July 21, 1938; "Tom" Gleason, as he had been called since infancy; studied at Harvard University, receiving a bachelor's degree in history in 1961 and a doctorate in Russian history in 1969; Dr. Gleason's first book was "European and Muscovite: Ivan Kireevsky and the Origins of Slavophilism" (1972); later co-edited volumes on Bolshevik culture, Soviet-American Relations, the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and George Orwell's novel "1984")